Watch as board certified dermatologist Dr. Anne Chapas explains how your genes and heredity can affect skin aging.
Well genes play an important role in skin aging, and you really can't change your genes. I have so many patients who come to see me and they say, I'm turning into my mother, I have my mother's neck, I'm starting to have these leg limbs like her, what can I do to slow this aging process or will I just eventually turn into my mother?
I think there's not a way to change their genes, but there are ways that you can slow the aging process, and I tell people they should follow the ABC. A stands for Vitamin A, or it's derivative, it's retinal or retin A, it's a great topical vitamin that you can put in your skin night lead to help even out fine lines as well as even skin tone.
B stands for vitamin B or you'll see that in products called niacinamide. Vitamin B has an anti inflammatory property. It can help smooth the redness and inflammation in the skin, and C stands for vitamin C, it's a really important antioxide that can also slow the aging process. So just remember your ABCs and it can help kind of turn back time a little bit.
Anne Chapas, MD is a New York City-based dermatologist and dermatological surgeon who specializes in cosmetic surgery, laser surgery and Mohs micrographic surgery for the treatment of skin cancers.
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